Judah’s Battle
Status: First Draft Complete–69,000 words
The sickness rose higher. The time had come … for which he had come.
… bullets into beating hearts …
“Your duty.” The words hovered inside his head. He looked down his rifle’s sight, focusing on one grim, ghastly face. Your duty.
For Canada, the Motherland, and God’s justice—that’s why Judah chose to fight in the war to end all wars. Not for adventure, as Josh did, or for a change of scenery like Nathan.
Duty called, and he would follow.
But when duty beckons him onto the shell-pitted, blood-bathed battlefield—into the thick of that tragedy called war—doubts creep into his mind. And the words of his friend and fellow-soldier, Philip, confuse him even further.
Back in Canada, Lysle is through with life. He has no strength left to fight against the depression that’s clung to him ever since … well, he’s never allowed himself to think back to the time it came. But his brother Judah is the only one who really knew him—not what he felt, because no one could know that, but what he needed. And now Judah is gone and might never come back.
Only fifteen years old—and Lysle is prepared to die.
This is Judah’s journey through the battlefields of World War I—and his own battlefield, where two duties fight for the No Man’s Land of his heart. It will take a tragic moment for the truth to come clear—the realisation of where his duty really lies …